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Abusive force: Metropolitan Police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests


RT
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:56 UTC
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Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects' heads during arrests and in police stations.

The mesh bags are used to restrain suspects and protect the police from those who might try to bite or spit at them. The Met insists the hoods prevents exposure to diseases and serious infection.

In a pilot scheme starting in October, 32 custody units will receive material and training on how to use the "spit guards." Their application on any suspect will be recorded under "use of force."

Spit hoods are not to be used on the streets initially, so as not to incense the public, but detail on their use after the pilot scheme expires has not been provided.
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Labor Day violence in Chicago: 7 dead, 7 injured in wave of shootings


RT
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 12:40 UTC
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© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
As people across the US celebrated Labor Day on Monday, Chicago was rocked by multiple shootings which left at least seven people dead and seven others injured.

Two people were killed in a shooting at Ogden Park at around 7:20pm local time, as more than 100 people celebrated the national holiday there. Emergency crews were called to the scene, according to Chicago Fire Department Commander Walter Schroeder, as cited by the Chicago Tribune.

One of the victims, aged 47, was walking his dog when he was struck in the chest by bullets fired from a nearby vehicle, according to Chicago police spokeswoman Officer Michelle Tannehill. A second man was also shot in the chest while hanging out in the park. He began running when he heard gunshots.

The two victims were taken to Stroger Hospital, where they were both pronounced dead, according to Tannehill.
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British Airways passengers stranded for hours as computer glitch hits worldwide check-in system


BBC News
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:46 UTC
BA delays after glitch
Passengers dropping off their bags at Heathrow, where BA said checking-in was taking 'longer than usual'
British Airways passengers are facing delays after an IT glitch affected check-in desks.

The airline apologised to customers, saying its IT teams were "working to resolve this issue".

British Airways told customers that some flights were cancelled on Monday "due to operational reasons".

It said in a statement: "We are checking in customers at Heathrow and Gatwick Airports this morning, although it is taking longer than usual."

"We are sorry for the delay to their journeys," the airline added.

Customers were encouraged to check in online before they reach the airport.
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Dr. Drew got 'scary, creepy' calls from 'mafia' CNN, after mentioning Hillary's health, told to retract comments

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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Washington, D.C. - Only days after board-certified medicine specialist, and TV personality, Dr. Drew Pinsky publicly stated that he was "gravely concerned" about the health of Hillary Clinton, his show was abruptly canceled by CNN. Not only was he fired, but on Monday, we have found that sources close to Pinsky describe a 'mafia'-like reaction from CNN, including harassment and threats.

After evaluating Clinton's medical records, Dr. Drew concluded that the medical treatments she has been receiving for a number of conditions were akin to "a 1950's level of care." He stated that if he were providing the type of care she is receiving he would be ashamed to show up in the doctor's lounge and would essentially be laughed at by other medical professionals.

While appearing on KABC's McIntyre in the Morning, Pinsky said he and his colleague Dr. Robert Huizenga became "gravely concerned... not just about her health but her health care," after analyzing the publically available medical records on Hillary.
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Blue Planet

The real conspiracy: Flat earth is a psyop


Millenium Report
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
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TMR Editor's Note:

There is perhaps no greater Internet-wide PSYOP than the CIA-directed Flat Earth Conspiracy (FEC). This covert black operation has London's notorious Tavistock Institute written all over it.

The Millennium Report has posted extensively on this extremely effective PSYOP since its inception. We have felt compelled to address it one last time because of a number of prominently configured truth-tellers who either subscribe to the FEC utter nonsense or who provide a safe haven to discuss their absurd and distracting 'theories'.

How is it that some major alternative news websites even host the ridiculous ramblings of Flat Earthers ... ... ... unless they, themselves, have been set up to do so? If ever there was a universal hot-button issue on the World Wide Web that ought to send up big bright RED flags, any website or blog that takes this mental diarrhea seriously is it. Unless they are totally exposing the FEC for the wacky (yet contrived) insanity that it truly is, why even go there.

No one is saying that the current scientific paradigm that involves both astrophysics and astronomy is not full of holes. Nor is there any reason to stop questioning every aspect of those various disciplines of modern science which have been shown to fall short ... some woefully short of the mark. However, the FEC was designed from the get-go to take any rational discussion into a completely irrational direction.

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Kazakh family publicly demand justice for the rape of their daughter

Farangis Najibullah and Dmitriy Belyakov
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:43 UTC
Gulbadar Musinova
Gulbadar Musinova took her fight for justice for her daughter to social media, despite the perceptions of a social stigma.
The suspects in an alleged gang rape last month in southeastern Kazakhstan are in custody and authorities there are on the defensive following a desperate social-media push by the victim's family to demand justice.

The 30-year-old victim's mother posted a video appeal after police in the rural town of Esik appeared to ignore the accusations of the brutal assault, in which she says the woman and a male relative were attacked leaving a karaoke cafe late one evening.

Shattering the silence that Kazakh activists say is far more common in the ethnically sprawling, mostly Muslim country of around 18 million, Gulbadar Musinova took to YouTube to detail the incident, accuse police of a cover-up, and counter a stigma.

"Why should I be ashamed?" the mother asks in the video (see below), fighting back tears. "Those men who raped my daughter should be ashamed, not us."
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Rewriting history: Danish textbook shows Finland and Norway as part of USSR


Sputnik
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:05 UTC
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The Danish publishing house Lindhardt & Ringhof has made a historic mistake, accidentally making northern Norway and Finland part of the Soviet Union in its most recent textbook, which contains other substantial errors.

The Danish textbook, written for high school students and aimed at teaching history, religion and social studies, features a map of the Cold War era, marked by both artistic freedom and historic mistakes. In addition to displaying northern Norway and the whole of Finland as parts of the Soviet Union, the notorious map listed the West-German state of Schleswig-Holstein as part of East Germany. In the Mediterranean, Greece, alongside with the previously unknown "Balkan Federation," obviously an amalgamation of Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, fell under the category "other communist states." Lastly, Turkey (a NATO member since 1952) was marked as "Soviet ally" together with and large swaths of the Middle East.

Comment: Behind the Headlines: Historical Revisionism in the 20th and 21st centuries

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Too posh for voters: British MPs found to 'repel' the working class


RT
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 18:50 UTC
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© ox.ac.uk
Wealthy Labour Party candidates "particularly repel" working class voters who don't believe these would-be representatives are in touch with their values or interests, a study has found.

Royal Holloway academic Oliver Heath compiled his findings in a paper published in a new book titled 'More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box.'

Past Labour leaders such as Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair consciously pursued a strategy of selecting "more and more middle class candidates to run for office during the 1980s and 1990s as part of an effort to rebrand," says Heath.
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British topless model groomed by Daesh recruiter, 19yo Australian 'kangaroo bomber' sentenced


RT
Mon, 05 Sep 2016 17:51 UTC
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© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
A former British glamour model being groomed online as a 'jihadist bride' by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL) says she is considering visiting the Turkey-Syria border for a third time in the next few months, but denies she wants to join the terrorist group.

Kimberley Miners, a former page three girl who has posed topless for the Sun newspaper, has allegedly been in contact with a British fighter in Syria, Abu Usama Al Britani, who is trying to recruit women to the terrorist group via Facebook.

According to the Times, Miners, 27, from Bradford, has been questioned by anti-terrorism police and MI5 up to four times due to her sharing IS videos on Facebook.

Miners, who uses social media under the alias of Aisha Lauren al-Britaniya, claims despite her "posting a lot of bombs and stuff" on social media, her interest in Islam is merely to find "peace."

Comment: Luckily in Miners's case, she appears to have at least a smidgeon of discernment when it comes to Daesh propaganda, but her involvement with this al-Britani guy is concerning. 'Recruiters' like him target individuals with certain psychological weaknesses. Unlike Miners, Besim appears to have undergone the full ponerization. Interestingly, both showed a change in behavior and worldview after the death of someone close to them. Probably the best method of "de-radicalization" is just to let everyone know that these recruiters work for Western intelligence agencies and their Gulf States allies.

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What's going on in Kazakhstan? Violent attacks break years of peace and quiet - UPDATE

Bruce Pannier
RFE/RL
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:41 UTC
almaty
© ReutersA police officer responds in Almaty after a gunman targeted police and left seven people dead.
Kazakhstan has been going through some tough times recently.

There were widespread protests against government land-reform plans in late April that culminated in countrywide rallies against government policies on May 21. Hundreds of people were arrested in the days leading up to and on the day of that protest.

Then in June, an armed group roamed the streets of the northwestern city of Aqtobe in an incident that left 28 people dead, most of them from the armed group, and that has just been followed by a killing spree by a lone gunman in the commercial capital, Almaty.

Comment: RFE/RL reports:
Sept. 5, 2016 - Kazakhstan's National Security Committee (KNB) says a group of radical Islamists that was arrested in recent weeks in the southern region of Almaty planned to hijack a plane and conduct "a 9/11-like" attack.

The KNB said on September 5 that another group apprehended in the central Qaraghandy region in June planned terrorist attacks against local infrastructure and a Russian military base near the lake of Balkhash.

According to the KNB, three more groups arrested on August 12-30 in the regions of Western Kazakhstan and Aqtobe planned a series of terrorist attacks against police and civilians.

In general, the KNB says, eight radical Islamist groups have been apprehended in the country since January.

In June, Kazakh authorities said a group of 25 alleged Islamic militants carried out a series of attacks that killed five civilians and three members of Kazakhstan's security forces in the northwestern city of Aqtobe.

Security forces who confronted the group killed 18 gunmen and arrested seven others.


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